Haiti Gets Its First President Since 2021 Assassination

Haiti’s transitional council on Tuesday named former senate president Edgard Gardy Leblanc Fils as temporary president of the nation and tapped former youth minister Fritz Belizaire as interim prime minister. Fils and Belizaire are scheduled to hold their offices until February 2026, when the security situation in Haiti will hopefully have been stabilized enough to hold nationwide elections. Belizaire will take over from Michel Patrick Boisvert, the former finance minister named interim prime minister by de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry when he tendered his formal resignation last week. Haiti...